The Department of History is pleased to announce the addition of alumnus George Derek Musgrove to its faculty, beginning this fall.
Musgrove attended UMBC from 1993-1997, obtaining a B.A. in history. He then proceeded to obtain the 2003-2004 Anne E. Plato predoctoral fellowship at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, the 2007-2008 postdoctoral fellowship in the Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy at Carnegie Mellon University, and his Ph.D. in U.S. History at New York University in 2005. He is the author of Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics: How Harassment of Black Elected Officials Shaped Post-Civil Rights America (University of George Press, 2012), and most recently was an assistant professor at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC).
“We are very excited to have… Musgrove joining our faculty because he is an especially promising historian of post-1945 US history, whose work combines political history, African-American history, the history of race relations, and urban history,” said Marjoleine Kars, chair of history.
Musgrove is equally excited at the opportunity to teach at his alma mater. “UMBC has a rich academic community,” he said. “I hope both to contribute to and benefit from that community. And in doing so, I hope to provide the same great learning experience that my professors gave me.”
Courses to be taught by the incoming professor include “American History: 1877-Present” (HIST102), and “The United States Since 1945” (HIST347).
More on Musgrove and his work can be found on his website.
